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SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECT IN THE CONTENT OF THE MODERN HYBRID WARFARE
SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECT IN THE CONTENT OF THE MODERN HYBRID WARFARE

Author(s): Oleksandr Yurievich Panfilov, Olga Oleksandrivna Savchenko
Subject(s): ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Globalization, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого
Keywords: hybrid warfare; “soft power”; social technology; organizational weapons;mass consciousness;

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the article is to study the essence of hybrid warfare within the sociological aspect. The paper focuses on the essence of “soft power” as the basis of a certain social technology that comprises the system of means and methods of purposeful action on social processes, the life of people under a hybrid war. The essence of organizational weapons is highlighted in the sociological context. It is noted that organizational weapons are based on special technologies of organizational management re flexion, which are aimed at representatives of social groups and institutions who are directly or indirectly involved in the long-term and short-term regulation of the behavior of the population. The mechanism of the organizational weapons impact on the value and semantic models of social reality perception is determined.